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SPECIAL    MEETING 

OF  THE 

Chicago  Pathological  Society, 


November  124,  1S93, 

IN    MEMORY  OF 

DR.  CHARLES  WARRINGTON   EARLE. 


Meeting  called  to  order  by  the  President,  Dr. 
Patton. 

In  the  absence  of  the  Secretary,  Dr.  G.  H.  Cleve- 
land was  elected  temporary  Secretary. 

Remarks  were  made  in  eulogy  of  Dr.  Earle  by  Doc- 
tors A.  H.  Foster,  I.  N.  Danforth,  Henry  Lyman, 
D.  W.  Graham,  E.  Fletcher  Ingals,  G.  W.  Emery, 
J.  R.  McCullough,  Joseph  Haven,  Homer  M.  Thomas, 
and  R.  N.  Hall;  Miss  Coon,  of  the  Woman's  Medical 
School,  and  Mr.  Burke,  of  the  senior  class  of  the 
College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons;  and  Doctors 
J.  M.  Patton  and  Geo.  H.  Cleveland. 

The  following  resolutions  were  unanimously 
adopted  : 

Whereas,  It  is  the  will  of  Divine  Providence  to  remove 
from  our  midst  our  honored  colleague  and  friend,  Dr  Charles 
Warrington  Earle;   and 

Whereas,  Dr.  Earle  has  long  been  a  distinguished  and  active 
member,  ever  ready  to  exert  himself  to  advance  the  work  of  this 
society.     Therefore  be  it 

Resolved,  That  the  members  of  the  Chicago  Pathological 
Society  hereby  express  their  appreciation  of  the  professional 
attainments  and  elevated  character  of  Dr.  Earle.  That  they  fur- 
ther express  their  profound  sorrow  at,  and  deeply  deplore  the  loss 
which  this  society  has   sustained  in  his  death;  and  be  it  further 

Resolved,  That  the  members  of  this  society  hereby  tender  to 
the  bereaved  family  of  Dr.  Earle  their  most  profound  sympathy 
and  respect;  and  be  it 

Resolved,  That  these  resolutions  be  spread  upon  the  minutes 
of  this  society,  and  that  a  copy  be  transmitted  to  the  family  of 
the  deceased. 

Executive  Committee, 
Of  the  Chicago  Pathological  Society. 


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The  society  passed  a  vote  of  thanks  for  the  use  of 
the  chapel.  Also  a  vote  of  thanks  to  the  students 
present. 

( )n  motion,  the  so<  iety  adjourned. 

Geo.  IIinkn  Cleveland,  Secretary  Pro  Tern. 

The  President:  As  you  are  aware,  this  meeting 
was  called  in  memory  of  Dr.  Charles  W.  Marie,  one 
of  the  most  energetic  members  this  society  has  ever 
had;  one  who  was  ever  ready  to  put  forth  his  best 
thought  and  work  in  behalf  of  the  society.  This  meet- 
in-  is  for  the  purpose  of  giving  expression  to  our 
appreciation  of  the  loss  the  society  has  sustained. 
Dr.  Addison  II.  Foster  will  speak  of  Dr.  Earle  as  a 
practitioner. 

Dr.  Addison  II.  Foster:  In  the  untimely  decease 
of  Dr.  Charles  Warrington  Earle,  our  society  has 
suffered  the  grievous  loss  of  a  most  esteemed  and 
valuable  member. 

He  was  broadly  interested  in  all  medical  society 
work,  in  its  objects,  its  benefits,  and  its  healthy  in- 
fluence upon  its  members,  the  profession,  and  the  pub- 
lic. He  was  always  a  ready  contributor  to,  and  a 
staunch  sustainer  of  this  department  of  professional 
labor. 

He  was  a  member  of  all  the  local  and  national  med- 
ical societies  of  standing  and  in  most  had  been  hon- 
ored with  the  highest  office  in  their  gift.  To  his  ardent 
zeal  and  faithful  devotion  to  his  trust,  we  can  always 
testify. 

His  wonderful  capacity  for  work  has  always  excited 
our  admiration,  anil  his  rapid  professional  success, 
won  by  such  inherited  vigor  and  persistent  endeavor, 
has  always  made  us  proud  that  he  was  one  of  our 
number. 

We  see  the  key  note  to  his  life  in  the  ''boy  soldier" 
experience.  '-Loyalty"  and  activity.  Loyalty  to.  and 
activity  for  any  worthy  cause,  with  its  resultant  mo- 
mentum that  carried  him  over  all  obstacles  straight 
to  the  goal  of  success. 

As  in  his  army  responsibilities  as  an  officer,  he  never 
forgot  the  slightest  detail  of  a  private's  life,  so  as 
President  of  any  society  he  always  cordially  recog- 
nized everyone  and  wished  him  to  gain  and  enjoy  the 


fullest  benefits  of  its  membership.  His  was  a  lauda- 
ble ambition  to  do  the  highest  kind  and  the  greatest 
amount  of  work. 

His  valuable  services  to  medical  colleges  can  best 
be  described  by  those  who  have  been  in  constant  as- 
sociation with  him. 

In  his  general  professional  work  he  was  keenly  alive 
to  all  the  interests  of  the  profession,  warmly  interested 
in  subjects  of  public  welfare,  always  active  and  prompt 
in  his  professional  and  public  duties.  Endowed  with 
an  uncommon  physique  and  endurance  of  continuous 
and  arduous  public  and  bedside  labor,  working  night 
and  day,  in  season  and  out,  from  the  first  moment  of  his 
professional  career  he  never  allowed  himself  one  mo- 
ment's rest  or  recreation,  but  crowded  a  life  time's 
work  into  a  few  short  years.  His  trips  in  this  country 
and  abroad  were  for  work  and  not  for  recreation  and 
rest.  He  was  always  an  extremely  busy  man;  no  in- 
dolent fibers  in  his  nature.  All  the  strings  of  life  were 
in  harmony,  all  well  strung. 

There  was  a  ready  responsive  chord  alike  to  every 
one,  aged  or  young,  in  wealth  or  in  poverty,  if  he  was 
a  sufferer  from  disease  or  accident,  he  always  had  a 
cheering  word  for  the  sick  one  and   his  friends. 

Although  so  busy,  he  could  always  contribute  time 
and  zeal  to  the  professional  protection  of  a  brother 
practitioner  who  had  been  crowded  in  the  sick  room 
by  meddlesome  neighbors  or  an  unworthy  medical 
professional. 

Many  a  grateful  younger  practitioner  has,  at  his 
hands,  been  generously  piloted  past  some  dangerous 
point  of  disease  or  trouble. 

Having  known  him  personally  for  nearly  twenty- 
five  years,  having  often  met  him  at  the  bedside  in  va- 
rious kinds  of  sickness  of  all  ages,  having  been  asso- 
ciated with  him  in  college  and  society  work  and  having 
often  conversed  with  him  privately  upon  the  treat- 
ment of  disease,  it  has  been  my  fortune  to  commend 
enthusiastically  his  therapeutic  methods  to  the  inquir- 
ing sufferer  and  his  friends.  He  was  simple  and  direct 
in  his  methods  of  combating  disease,  and  in  the  use  of 
remedies  was  never  given  to  heroic  prescriptions. 

We  met  oftener,  than  otherwise,  in  the  field  of 
children's  complaints.     There  he    always  seemed    at 


his  best  .in.l  rapidl)  read  the  hidden  mysteries  of  a 
ng   juvenile  nature.      I  [e  «  as  pe<  uiiai  l\  happ} . 
too,  in    Ins    read)    appreciation   oi    the  delicate    and 
sensitive  stomach  oi  infancy  and  childhood. 

In   mv  mind,  as  a  discriminating   and  careful   pre- 
scriber  of  remedies,  he  was  the  peer  ol  the  wonder- 
fully practical   and  successful  workers   in  the    hi 
art,  the  late  lamented  l>i^.  Hutchins  and  Knox. 

Like  tin-in,  broad  of  scope,  he  quickly  saw  the  ene- 
mies field,  its  extent,  its  intrenchments,  and  its  am- 
buscades, ami  had  all  his  means  of  offense  and  defense 
well  at   band. 

As  the  methods  and  customs  of  mercantile  business 
have  undergom  great  i  hanges  in  the  last  twenty  five 
years,  so  have  those  ol  the  medical  profession.  The 
cits  and  country  practitioner  of  the  present  day  must 
take  cognizance  of  all  the  little  refinements  in  phar- 
maceutical preparations;    he  must  Study  the  tastes  and 

idiosyncrasies  of   his   patients,  and   hu r   in  various 

ways    the    afflicted   one  and     his    friends,    espei  tally 
should  the  sick  one  be  a  child. 

In  all  this  Dr.  Earle  was  always  watchfully  on 
the  alert,  and  ingenious  and  discriminating  in  his  re- 
sources to  accomplish  successfully  his  purpose. 

Of  his  experience  and  success  in  the  departments 
of  obstetrics  and  gynaecology  others  more  familiar 
with  his  work  can  better  tell  us. 

He  was  fast  developing  in  breadth  of  mind,  clear- 
ness of  thought,  and  elegance  of  word.  Some  ad- 
dresses of  his  the  past  year  were  efforts  hard  to  sur- 
pass either  in  .matter,  in  method,  or  in  diction. 

He  was  cut  down  in  middle  life.  What  high  pro- 
fessional possibilities  might  have  been  in  store  for 
him,  in  the  next  score  or  more  of  years,  we  shall 
never  know.  But  as  long  as  there  were  worlds  in 
medicine  to  conquer,  and  he  had  his  strength  and 
reason,  we  can  but  believe  he  would  have  made  them 
his. 

We  shall  miss  him.  Miss  his  large  vigorous  form, 
his  broad  smiling  face,  his  strong,  cheery  voice,  and 
his  full  hearty  laugh.  His  memory  will  fade  slowly 
and  will  be  a  silent  warning  to  us  to  be  more  heedful 
of  our  own  life  preserving  precepts. 

These  are  some  of  the  pleasant  recollections  of,  and 


-7- 
kindly  reflections  upon   the    life   of   a    heartily  active, 
eagerly  persistent,   nobly   ambitious,    and    eminently 
successful  brother  practitioner. 

Dr.  I.N.  Danforth:  I  want  to  say  at  the  begin- 
ning, that  since  I  was  asked  to  speak  to-night  I  have 
not  had  one  minute's  time  to  give  to  writing  anything; 
I  am  sorry  to  come  at  all  in  this  way,  but  I  could  not 
do  otherwise. 

I  first  knew  Dr.  Earle  as  a  teacher  in  connection 
with  the  Woman's  College  which  was  along  in  L869. 
He  was  one  of  the  founders  and  charter  members  of 
the  college,  and  he  has  been  in  that  college  from  that 
time  to  his  death.  He  was  also  one  of  the  founders  of 
the  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons.  He  was 
also  interested  in  the  Practitioner's  Course,  and  also 
taught  in  the  Rush  Medical  College  for  a  time;  so 
that  his  experience  as  a  teacher,  began  twenty 
years  ago  or  more.  His  characteristics  as  a  teacher 
were,  first,  his  magnificent  physique;  that  is  a  great 
advantage  to  start  with.  I  know  from  experience 
how  long  it  takes  and  how  hard  work  it  is  for  a  small 
man  to  make  himself  felt.  People  always  judge  a 
small  man  according  to  his  looks,  and  they  are  likely 
to  judge  a  large  man  according  to  his  looks,  so  that 
other  things  being  equal,  the  large  man  starts  out 
with  a  great  advantage.  In  the  case  of  Dr.  Earle  it 
occurred  that  he  was  not  only  large  in  body,  but  that  in 
that  splendid  physique  which  promised  so  much,  there 
was  the  intellectual  force  which  filled  out  the  promise. 
There  was  not  only  the  body,  the  physical  presence, 
that  commanded  respect,  to  begin  with,  but  there  was 
the  intellectual  factor  which  came  afterward,  so  that 
this  was  a  grand  starting  point. 

In  the  second  place  came  that  grand  voice.  I  al- 
ways envied  him  that  voice;  so  musical,  so  well  man- 
aged, so  under  his  command,  so  much  a  power  in 
speaking.  It  was  always  so  forcible,  and  had  so  much 
to  do  with  commanding  attention.  With  that  splendid 
physique  and  grand  voice  he  would  command  the  at- 
tention of  the  class  from  the  very  first  minute,  and  he 
always  got  it. 

In  the  third  place  his  manner  was  so  easy,  per- 
suasive, natural,  unstudied,  and  yet  so  forceful.  He 
threw  himself  into    his  lectures   just   as  he   did  into 


everything  else.  I>r.  Charles  Warrington  Earle  could 
not  do  anything  moderately;  he  was  always  an  engine 
with  steam  up,  and  so  he  lectured.  Every  lecture  was 
a  boiled  down  force,  he  could  not  do  it  in  any  other 
way.  There  was  that  enthusiastic  energy  that  always 
commanded  attention  ol  these  young  nun  and  these 
young  women.  The  whole  man  seemed  boiled  down 
into  this  one  lecture  as  though  it  was  the  last  thil  g 
he  evei  expei  ted  to  do,  and  that  must  be  done  in  this 
almost  furious  way.  Then  there  was  the  style.  1 
might  say  as  a  speaker  there  was  no  style  about  him, 
he  never  seemed  to  think  of  style.  I  remembei  in 
Washington  a  few  years  ago  he  addressed  a  sec- 
tion ol  the  International  Medical  Congress  there; 
and  I  remember  the  remarks  that  were  made  about 
it;  how  unstudied  he  was.  how  little  art  there  was 
about  it.  lie  did  not  seem  to  know,  or  think  or 
care  anything  about  oratory.  That  did  not  seem  to 
enter  into  his  thoughts  or  plans  at  all;  but  it  was 
the  direct  manner  of  getting  at  the  facts  in  the 
shortest  way  with  the  fewest  words.  Those  of  you 
who  have  noticed  him  in  speaking  or  writing,  know 
that  lie  always  got  the  right  word  to  express  his 
thoughts,  and  as  I  have  noticed  many  times  he  always 
sought  Saxon  words,  our  simple  forceful  Saxon  where 
ever  it  would  answer;  there  was  none  of  your  stilted 
Latin  or  Greek  in  his  speeches.  It  was  all  direct, 
plain,  simple  Saxon,  the  strongest  language  for  public 
speaking  in  the  world,  and  so  he  always  attracted  at- 
tention at  once.  Then  there  was  this  too,  about  his 
lectures,  they  were  honest  lectures;  you  knew  from 
the  very  beginning  that  he  believed  what  he  said;  that 
it  was  not  a  lecture  gotten  up  for  the  purpose  of  fill- 
ing up  time,  or  filling  the  place  of  a  professor,  but 
it  was  the  honest  conviction  of  a  man  who  believed 
what  he  said.  That  it  was  not  only  what  he  had 
read,  what  he  had  thought,  but  what  he  actually  be- 
lieved. Every  lecture  was  a  part  of  the  man.  It 
was  knowledge  that  was  assimilated;  knowledge  that 
was  his;  that  was  a  part  of  the  man.  It  was  not  a 
written  lecture  gotten  up  to  publish,  but  it  was  a  few 
direi  t.  terse  English  or  Saxon  words  to  a  class  of 
students,  intended  for  their  best  good,  and  they  always 
knew   it. 


Then,  lastly,  there  was  the  practical  value  of  his 
lectures;  they  were  almost  always  the  result  of  his 
personal  experience;  what  he  had  seen,  what  he  had 
done.  He  was  a  great  reader;  he  read  all  the  time; 
but  his  teaching  was  drawn  far  more  from  his  ex- 
perience than  it  was  from  his  reading.  I  think  his 
experience  was  very  great  for  a  man  so  voung,  and 
his  lecture  appeared  to  me  like  a  simple  story  of  his 
experience,  what  he  had  seen  and  what  he  had  done, 
and  he  could  tersely  impart  that  experience  to  a  class 
of  students.  These  were  the  characteristics  of  the  man 
as  a  teacher,  which  summed  up,  made  what  I  call  a 
great  teacher;  one  who  was  much  loved  by  his  pupils, 
and  respected  for  his  practical  knowledge. 

This  man  has  left  us  forever.  His  life  and  his  death 
ought  to  be  a  warning  to  young  men.  It  makes 
me  feel  like  weeping  when  I  think  of  how  this 
splendid  man  has  sacrificed  his  life  almost  in  vain, 
and  yet  not  in  vain;  but  how  he  has  worn  out,  actually 
grown  old  in  his  few  years.  I  think  it  ought  to  be  a 
warning  also  to  us  older  men  to  stop  a  little,  to  rest  a 
little,  to  breathe  a  little.  It  ought  to  be  a  warning  to 
all  of  us  not  to  undertake  to  do  in  a  few  years  what 
ought  to  be  spread  over  many  years.  There  are  very 
few  men  or  women  who  have  accomplished  as  much 
in  a  few  years  as  Dr.  Earle.  At  the  age  of  sixteen 
commanding  a  company  in  battle,  and  from  that  time 
until  his  last  hour  working  with  an  intensity  that 
seems  almost  beyond  belief. 

Dr.  Earle  was  great  in  all  directions;  great  in  body; 
great  in  mind;  great  in  heart,  and  great  in  achieve- 
ment. We  shall  miss  him  long,  and  his  example  will 
be  to  us  a  great  lesson  worthy  of  imitation  and  ad- 
miration. 

Dr.  Henry  M.  Lyman:  I  have  been  very  forcibly 
reminded  during  the  past  few  days  of  some  of  the 
incidents  of  my  life  in  which  I  have  been  brought 
in  contact  with  our  beloved  friend,  who  has  gone 
from  us.  It  was  thirty  years  ago,  one  cold  winter 
day,  that  I  was  lying  on  my  back  in  a  berth  on 
a  steamboat,  where  we  had  been  blockaded  for  over 
a  week  in  the  Cumberland  river,  before  the  city  of 
Nashville.  It  was  during  the  war  and  I  had  been  sta- 
tioned in    the   hospitals   of  Nashville,    and    there  had 


bei  n  twice  broughl  down  to  death's  door,  and  at  last 
it  was  decided  that  I  must  give  up  the  conflict  and 
retreat  to  a  more  healthful  northern  climate.  With 
hundreds  ol  other  sick  and  wounded  men,  1  was 
plai  ed  on  board  ol  om  oi  a  fleet  ol  steamboats  in 
the  river  in  readiness  (oi  the  voyage  to  the  North. 
But  we  could  not  start  in  consequence  ol  a  blockade 
of  the  river  by  the  rebel  forces  between  Nashville 
and  the  Ohio.  One  cold  afternoon  a  great  commo- 
tion staited  up  along  the  banks  of  the  liver,  and 
anion-  the  fleet  in  which  we  were  lying,  and  soon  the 
won!  was  passed  around  that  an  army  was  coming 
from  the  north  upon  a  fleet  of  steamboats  ad\am 
ing  up  the  Cumberland  river  to  Nashville.  There 
was  an  open  door  through  which  I  could  look 
down  tlie  river,  and  there  in  the  distance  appeared  a 
cloud  of    smoke    giving    notii  e  of   the  close    approach 

of    this    fleet.     It    was    Gen.    Granger    with     20, 

men  coming  to  the  relief  of  the  city  of  Nashville  and 
tin  situation  there.  The  blockade  had  been  raised, 
and  here  was  the  fleet.  First  the  gunboats  with 
their  iron  clad  sides,  and  I  saw  the  old  familiar  uni- 
form of  the  navy  officers  on  their  decks,  and  all  the 
paraphernalia  of  naval  warfare,  with  which  I  had  been 
familiar  on  the  eastern  coast,  but  now  it  seemed 
very  singular  up  there  among  the  mountains  in  the 
heart  of  the  continent.  Behind  them  came  a  long 
line  of  steamboats  filled  with  soldiers,  a  complete 
army  of  infantry,  artillery  and  cavalry.  In  that  army 
was  Dr.  Earle  but  I  did  not  know  it  at  the  time; 
and  1  knew  nothing  of  him  during  his  army  career. 

My  first  personal  acquaintance  with  Dr.  Earle  was 
in  this  city  shortly  before  the  fire.  I  had  occasion 
one  day  to  go  to  Dr.  Byford's  office  to  see  him  about 
some  matter  connected  with  the  hospital.  His  office 
was  then  in  the  small,  old-fashioned  building  owned 
by  Dr.  Dyche,  in  which  was  Dr.  Dyche's  drug 
store,  where  it  now  stands  on  the  corner  of  State  and 
Randolph  streets.  I  went  into  the  office  and  Dr. 
I '.\toid  was  not  there,  but  there  was  a  big,  hearty, 
rosy  cheeked  young  fellow  slashing  around  in  the 
office.  He  came  up  to  me,  greeted  me  cordially, 
told  me  where  Dr.  Byford  was.  and  when  he  would  be 
there.       He    told    me  he    was    Dr.   Bvford's    student, 


He  was  the  future  Dr.  C.  W.  Earle.  I  recognized 
him  as  no  ordinary  medical  student,  there  was  evi- 
dently the  making  of  a  great  doctor  in  that  young 
man.  We  met  occasionally  during  the  following 
years.  Little  by  little  he  came  into  prominence. 
When  he  settled  in  this  part  of  the  city  I  used  to 
meet  him  every  little  while,  hut  it  was  not  until  we 
became  associated  in  the  faculty  of  the  Woman's 
Medical  College  that  I  learned  to  know  him  inti- 
mately. There  was  some  thing  about  the  man  that 
always  made  it  a  pleasure  to  meet  him,  to  talk  with 
him,  to  see  him.  He  was  so  natural,  so  childlike  in 
the  manner  in  which  he  acted;  there  was  that  about 
him  which  made  his  acquaintance  more  than  ordi- 
narily pleasing.  Our  acquaintance  has  continued 
until  the  time  of  his  death.  I  always  admired  him, 
for  those  noble  qualities  that  have  been  alluded  to, 
which  could  not  but  arrest  the  attention  of  every  one. 
I  think  the  characteristics  of  Dr.  Earle  may  be 
summed  up  in  a  very  few  words:  He  was  a  man 
of  exuberant  character,  the  first  quality  in  a  man 
of  such  large  and  magnificent  physical  endowment. 
His  whole  nature  was  patterned  on  a  large  scale,  and 
he  was  emphatically  a  man  of  action.  Those  were 
the  two  great  characteristics  of  the  man;  his  abun- 
dant energy,  and  the  delight  with  which  he  used  it 
wherever  he  was.  He  was  a  noble  character.  .  No- 
body could  help  noticing  him  in  a  crowd  and  asking, 
Who  is  that  man?  and  yet  there  was  not  a  particle  of 
ostentation  about  him.  Dr.  Earle  was  a  modest  man, 
though  he  had  not  any  of  that  shyness  that  keeps  so 
many  good  men  in  the  background,  and  prevents  them 
from  taking  the  place  they  really  deserve  in  this  world. 
He  had  not  a  particle  of  false  modesty,  but  he  was 
really  an  enthusiastic,  childlike,  modest  character. 
He  could  not  help  being  prominent,  it  was  his 
nature  to  be  so.  He  could  not  help  doing  what 
he  did  with  all  his  might,  it  was  perfectly  spon- 
taneous. His  voice  was  loud  simply  because  he 
had  good  lungs  and  powerful  muscles.  His  good 
nature  bubbled  over,  just  like  the  water  that  comes 
up  from  a  flowing  spring,  ever  fresh,  ever  clear  and 
sparkling.  That  was  his  nature  and  he  could  not  help 
it;  he  simply  acted  in  accordance  with  the  laws  of  his 


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being  in  all  that  he  did.  There  was  nothing  artificial, 
nothing  assumed,  nothing  put  on.  No  attempt  at  do- 
ing  more  than  he  was  able  to  do.  No  attempt  at 
appearing  anything  else  than  what  he  really  was. 
I  hose  I  think  were  the  great  qualities  that  made  Dr. 
Earle  what  he  was,  su<  h  a  man  as  we  all  delight  to 
honor,  and  a  man  whose  loss  is  well-nigh   irreparable. 

Dr.  D.  W.  Graham:  1  had  not  intended  to  say 
anything  to  night  along  any  special  line,  but  I  want 
to  endorse  what  has  been  said  as  to  Dr.  Earle's  per- 
sonal qualities  and  his  abilities,  both  as  a  practitioner 
and  as  a  teacher.  I  have  kown  him  intimately  for 
twenty-one  years,  and  have  been  associated  with  him 
in  a  great  many  matters,  and  we  have  shared  many 
important  responsibilities  together;  so  that  I  feel  I 
have  sustained  a  greater  personal  loss  than  I  would 
in  the  death  of  any  other  member  of  the  profession. 
However,  there  is  a  phase  of  Dr.  Karle's  professional 
life  which  has  not  been  mentioned  by  any  one  and 
which  I  think  it  particularly  appropriate  to  speak  of 
in  a  meeting  of  this  kind.  I  refer  to  his  relations  to 
medical  societies.  He  was  closely  identified  with  the 
local  societies,  both  general  and  special,  and  also  with 
the  State  and  national  associations.  He  was  not  only 
a  member  but  was  an  active  supporter  and  promoter 
of  all  these  organizations;  and  he  realized  their  bene- 
fits and  appreciated  their  value  to  the  individual 
members  of  the  profession  anil  their  good  influence 
on  the  profession  as  a  whole,  in  an  unusual  degree. 
In  this  respect  Dr.  Earle  was  a  model  for  all  of  us, 
and  particularly  for  the  younger  members  of  the  pro- 
fession; those  who  are  about  to  enter  and  those  who 
are  already  in  the  profession. 

Dr.  E.  Fletcher  Ingals  :  I  became  acquainted 
with  Dr.  Earle  twenty-five  years  ago,  when  we  were 
students  in  the  Cook  County  Hospital.  I  knew 
him  as  a  joyous,  good  natured  boy  and  a  faithful 
student.  We  met  very  frequently  in  the  hospital,  and 
I  have  no  doubt  that  Prof.  Lyman  often  saw  him 
there  on  the  benches.  He  graduated  a  year  before  I 
did,  and  I  lost  sight  of  him  for  a  year  or  two,  but  soon 
came  in  contact  with  him  again  when  we  both  came 
to  the  West  Side;  and  since  then  1  have  met  him 
often   for   these   many  years.     Although   in  that  early 


da}'  we  represented  two  different  schools,  and  at  that 
time  there  was  a  good  deal  of  jealousy  between  the 
schools — the  Chicago  Medical  College  and  the  Rush 
Medical  College  —  and  it  was  considered  almost  neces- 
sary for  the  students  of  the  two  separate  schools  to 
be  pretty  nearly  enemies;  yet  he  was  not  a  man  I 
cared  to  have  as  an  enemy,  so  we  came  to  be  very 
warm  friends  at  an  early  time.  He  was  a  pacific  man, 
who  did  not  take  up  other  people's  quarrels,  and  if 
others  chose  to  fight  he  let  them  alone.  He  was  a 
friend  of  all  the  colleges  and  of  all  the  physicians. 
I  do  not  think  I  ever  heard  him  speak  unkindly  of  any 
one. 

I  have  met  him  frequently  in  consultation,  and 
have  seen  that  which  has  been  mentioned  by  one  of 
the  speakers — his  simple  and  direct  method,  his 
uniform  good  judgment,  and  his  wdlingness  to  be 
guided,  or  to  accept  suggestions  from  others,  or  to 
give  council;  at  the  same  time  he  was  always  good 
natured.  and  always  faithful  in  carrying  out  any 
suggestions  agreed  upon  by  the  physicians  in  con- 
sultation. Dr.  Earle  appreciated  loyalty  more  than 
people  commonly  do.  You  could  rely  upon  him;  you 
might  know  that  what  he  said  was  what  he  meant 
and  you  could  tell  where  to  find  him. 

We  were  associated  in  the  Woman's  College  for 
a  number  of  years,  but  not  so  intimately  until  within 
the  last  three  or  four  years,  when  it  fell  to  my  lot  to 
be  appointed  on  the  Executive  Committee.  There 
are  three  on  that  committee,  and  those  three,  in 
the  interims  between  faculty  meetings  are  responsible 
for  the  interests  of  the  institution.  In  these  meetings 
I  have  learned  more  of  his  character  than  at  any 
other  place.  He  meant  to  deal  fairly  with  every  one. 
He  meant  to  do  what  was  for  the  best  of  the  school; 
and  the  students  must  know  that  thev  have  lost  a 
friend,  whose  place  cannot  be  filled.  He  had  a  par- 
ticularly warm  place  in  his  heart  for  the  lady  stu- 
dents; whom  he  realized  had  unusual  difficulties  to 
overcome.  And  I  have  seen  him,  with  tears  in  his 
eyes,  plead  for  them  when  he  thought  some  of  the 
others  of   the  faculty  were  a  little  bit  hard. 

He  had  a  great  heart,  which  I  have  often  seen 
manifested  in  the  care  of    his  patients  and  in  dealing 


with  their  afflicted  friends.  He  was  an  energetii 
man.  and  a  constant  worker,  foi  which  I  admired 
him.  There  are  very  few  men  who  work  so  continu- 
alhj  as  diil  Dr.  Earle;  and  tins  is  something  which 
the  younger  men  ami  women  in  the  profession  should 
emulate,  and  they  need  not  be  frightened  bj  the  sad 
ending  ol  the  example.  He  fell  that  one  must  work 
to  succeed,  and  that  there  was  no  excuse  for  idleness. 
He  was  willing  to  work  the  whole  day  and  the  whole 
night,  if  necessary.  His  success  and  reputation  in 
the  profession  wen-  enviable,  but  were  not  gained 
through  chance.  He  lias  said  to  me  often,  then  ar< 
many  nun  who  feel  they  are  not  appreciated  among 
men,  but  the  reason  is,  they  are  not  willing  to  work 
as  we  have  done.  Those  entering  the  medical  pro- 
fession should  remember  that  they  will  be  obliged  to 
work,  and  work  hard,  if  they  wish  to  succeed.  As 
he    workeel  so  he  succeeded. 

But  there  is  also  a  warning  in  his  life,  or  rather 
in  the  close  of  it.  Nearly  two  years  ago,  in  my 
intimate  association  with  him,  I  saw  him,  as  it  were, 
standing  upon  the  brink  of  the  gulf  that  has  swal- 
lowed him,  saw  my  friend  in  danger,  and  warned 
him  over  and  over  again  of  the  coming  catastrophe, 
for  I  felt  that  I  could  see  the  bank  crumbling  away 
beneath  him,  and  I  was  not  mistaken.  1  believe  in 
work,  but  a  man  must  also  rest.  Of  course  in  the 
early  years  of  Dr.  Earle's  practice  he  had  abundance 
of  time,  but  during  the  last  few  years  he  has  not  had 
time  for  rest.  About  two  years  ago  I  urged  him  often 
to  take  a  vacation,  or  to  get  more  rest  daily,  but  he 
felt  as  many  others  do,  that  his  strong  frame  could 
stand  anything,  and  he  thought  he  would  see  the  dan- 
ger in  time  to  stop.  He  realized  that  the  advice  was 
good;  he  said,  to  himself,  "Yes,  this  is  all  right  for 
others,  I  understand  it,  but  I  will  stop  in  time."  I  did 
not  know  that  things  had  gone  so  far  until  during  his 
last  illness,  when  he  told  me  that  for  the  last  four  or 
five  months  he  had  been  retiring  about  12  o'clock, 
anil  waking  at  four,  and  soon  finding  he  could  not 
sleep  longer  he  thought  he  might  as  well  be  up 
and  at  work;  thus  he  did  not  get  more  than  four 
hours  sleep  a  night.  If  lie  had  realized  his  danger 
he  might  have   saved    himself  even   then,  but  he  did 


not  until  it  was  too  late.  When  I  saw  him  last,  just 
before  he  took  to  his  bed,  he  told  me  he  was  going 
away  to  take  a  rest  for  several  months.  If  he  had 
taken  this  rest  six  months  ago  he  would  probably 
have  been  spared  this  sickness,  and  we  the  loss  of  our 
friend.  There  are  ladies  and  gentlemen  here  who 
will  have  to  heed  this  warning;  when  thay  can  rest 
eight  hours  a  day  they  are  safe  in  working  as  hard  as 
they  will,  but  when  the  nervous  system  becomes  so 
overwrought  that  they  cannot  obtain  adequate  rest, 
they  must  call  a  halt,  and  however  expensive  it  may 
seem  at  the  time,  be  assured  it  will  be  the  best  in 
the  end. 

Dr.  Earle's  taking  off  is  to  me  the  hardest  blow  I 
have  suffered  for  many  years;  even  in  the  dead  of 
night  when  I  wakenmy  first  thought  is  that  I  will  never 
more  see  this  goodly  man,  and  during  the  day  there  is 
a  constant  loneliness  that  I  cannot  overcome.  Yet  I 
know  the  world  will  move  on,  and  some  one  will 
partially  fill  his  place,  but  we  will  miss  for  many  years 
this  noble  friend. 

Dr.  G.  W.  Emery  :  I  would  speak  of  Dr.  Earle 
as  one  would  conceive  of  a  man  by  impression,  having 
only  one  opportunity  to  see  him,  having  no  opportu- 
nity to  be  made  acquainted  with  him.  Yet  I  would 
give  you  the  thought  that  came  into  my  mind  on  that 
evening  as  I  saw  him  at  the  Practitioners'  Club.  I 
saw  in  him  a  man  of  generous  impulse.  I  saw  in  Dr. 
Earle  a  man  whom  I  thought  was  void  of  the  material 
— envv — which  comes  so  often  in  the  medical  profes- 
sion. A  man  who,  extending  a  most  courteous  and 
kindly  hand  to  me.  almost  a  stranger  in  the  city,  was 
just  as  cordial  as  friends  from  whom  I  had  parted 
after  many  years  of  acquaintance.  As  I  have  heard 
the  eulogies  passed  upon  this  man,  I  have  grown  still 
more  to  feel  that  the  profession  of  Chicago  has  lost 
one  who  will  be  long  remembered.  As  a  teacher  I 
knew  him  not.  When  I  heard  the  last  speaker 
tell  of  Dr.  Earle's  sympathy  with  the  women  who 
study  this  profession,  I  thought  of  the  early  strug- 
gles of  women  when  I  was  in  the  Bellevue  Hos- 
pital Medical  College  in  1864,  and  saw  the  class  come 
in  there  with  I  think  twelve  women  ;  and  saw  what 
they  had  to  pass  through,  I  thought  then  how  difficult 


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it  would  he  for  women  to  tight  this  battle,  and  my 
sympathies  were  with  them  in  their  struggles.  I  then, 
as  an  abolitionist,  could  tell  something  about  what  it 
was  to  fight  uphill  battles,  and  saw  some  of  those  who 
struggled  in  uphill  battles.  From  what  1  hen- of  Dr. 
baric  I  feel  that  he  was  a  man  who  was  generous  and 
free  to  those  who  received  his  instruction.  1  know 
he  must  have  had  liberality  of  thought,  and  kindness  of 
action.  In  no  profession  under  God's  blue  canopy  is 
there  so  much  sadness  as  there  is  in  our  profession  of 
medicine.  I>r.  Earle  was  a  man  who  always  made 
friends  ;  with  me  the  impression  was  very  deep  that 
he  was  a  generous,  a  very  earnest  and  true  man  in  his 
profession. 

We  shall  miss  him  ;  the  profession  in  Chicago  will 
miss  him.  But  his  example  is  left  in  the  minds  of 
those  whom  he  has  instructed,  and  may  there  ever  be 
a  living  of  him  as  the)'  live  on  in  their  professional  life. 

Dr.  J.  R.  McCuLLOUGH:  My  knowledge  of  Dr. 
Earle  dates  back  a  good  many  years,  and  more  par- 
ticularly to  his  soldier  life.  We  were  in  Libby  Prison 
together,  and  the  struggle  to  get  out  was  characters 
tic  of  Dr.  Earle.  He  was  not  much  more  than  a  bean 
pole  at  that  time  and  he  could  get  through  small 
spaces  easily;  he  was  pretty  thin.  He  went  into  the 
service  at  sixteen,  and  I  believe  it  was  his  army  life 
and  early  advancement,  to  first  sergeant  of  the  com- 
pany, and  the  imposed  responsibility,  that  made  him 
what  he  has  been  of  later  years;  he  had  the  physical 
ability,  be  had  all  the  material  for  great  achieve- 
ments, and  that  army  responsibility  was  what  made 
him  with  his  great  big  head  and  heart;  the  field 
culture  he  received  benefited  him.  I  escaped  in  a  dif- 
ferent way  from  what  he  did.  I  could  not  get  into  the 
squad  that  he  was  in  to  go  through  the  tunnel,  but  I 
got  on  duty  at  one  of  the  hospitals,  and  it  was  my 
good  fortune  to  be  carried  out  as  a  corpse  and  be 
placed  in  a  coffin  in  the  dead  house,  which  was  out- 
side of  the  hospital  yard,  and  I  remained  there  until 
after  dark;  I  was  in  the  coffin  about  five  hours,  but  1 
got  out   and   am  here. 

When  I  came  to  Chicago  in  187-J  one  of  the  first  phy- 
sicians I  met  was  Dr.  Earle.  Last  February  I  said  to 
him,  what  does  this  stoop  mean  ?  There  is  something 


wrong  with  you,  you  are  working  too  hard;  if  that 
cord  does  not  give  away  I  will  be  mistaken.  Now  I  talk 
to  you  as  plainly  as  I  ever  talk;  you  have  got  to  stop 
work.  In  1860  I  had  to  give  up,  and  I  am  here  vigor- 
ous now,  and  I  gave  up  lor  about  two  years.  The 
warning  is  to  you,  do  not  set  your  pinnacle  so  high 
that  you  are  going  to  wear  your  system  out  in  attain- 
ing it.  It  seems  to  me  it  cannot  be  possible  that 
Charles  Warrington  Earle  is  laid  away.  He  leaves 
so  many  to  mourn  him,  his  work  will  always  stand 
and  we  will  remember  that  big  heart  and  friendship. 
He  was  eleven  years  younger  than  I  am.  He  was 
told  last  February  to  stop  work  and  go  out  to  Arizona 
where  Dr.  Bridge  was,  and  have  a  complete  rest,  and 
he  would  come  back  healthy  and  live  a  long  life,  but 
he  did  not  do  it. 

The  army  life  I  believe  was  what  made  him  the 
man  he  was.  He  was  young  and  just  at  a  time  for 
that  training  up  mentally  and  physically,  and  the 
early  giving  to  him  of  command,  while  it  did  not  ele- 
vate him  so  much,  it  cultured  him  and  made  him  the 
leader  he  was 

Dr.  Joseph  Haven:  I  feel  that  the  meeting  of  this 
society  in  memoriam  of  Dr.  Earle  has  been  well 
called,  not  only  out  of  love  and  respect,  but  also  out 
of  justice.  Some  of  you  who  were  at  the  funeral  pos- 
sibly felt  as  I  did,  that  while  the  floral  offerings  were 
most  beautiful,  and  spoke  all  that  flowers  could  of 
the  silent  love  of  the  donors,  while  the  numbers 
present  spoke  all  that  numbers  could  of  the  esteem 
of  the  people;  and  that  the.  orators  spoke  most 
eloquently  and  tenderly  of  his  life  as  a  soldier  and  a 
man,  there  was  yet  lacking  a  proper  tribute  to  his 
memory  as  a  physician,  and  our  ears  listened  eagerly 
to  catch  some  word  of  the  life  he  lived  as  we  knew  it 
of  the  man  as  he  went  in  and  out  among  us.  Those 
of  us  whose  privilege  it  was  to  be  present  at  the 
Chicago  Medical  Society  last  Monday  evening  and 
heard  the  tributes  paid  to  his  memory,  notably  the 
eloquent  and  touching  eulogy  of  Professor  Ouine,  will 
never  forget  it,  and  if  at  the  funeral  an  opportunity 
had  been  offered  some  such  gifted  speaker  to  recall 
his  life  as  a  physician  as  the  profession  and  the 
people  had  known  it,  it  would  have  met  with  respons- 


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ive  hearts.  I  am  therefore  glad  an  occasion  is 
afforded  to  hear  from  the  profession  which  he  loved, 
and  of  a  personal  chance  to  say  a  word  in  tribute 
tu  the  man  who  has  been  my  life  long  friend. 
It  lias  been  my  privilege  to  know  Dr.  Earle  dur- 
ing all  the  tunc  I  think,  of  Ins  practice  i>1  medi- 
cine in  tins  city.  As  a  neighbor  and  membei  of  the 
same  church,  i  knew  him  intimately  from  a  social 
standpoint,  and  for  the  last  seventeen  years,  since  I 
began  the  studj  oi  medicine,  1  have  known  him 
well  from  a  professional  standpoint,  and  looking 
ba<  k  tn  da}  ovei  tins  long  acquaint. on  e,  I  t.iil  to  find 
one  word  spoken  or  one  act  performed  that  I  could 
criticise  or  find  any  fault  with.  As  a  student,  his  li- 
brary and  his  counsel  were  always  open  to  me;  as  a 
physician,  his  advice  in  consultation  was  always  at 
command,  at  any  time  ami  given  with  as  much 
interest   as   though   the  case   had  been  his  own. 

One  of  the  speakers  referring  to  his  energy  and  ac- 
tivity recalls  to  my  mind  a  case  three  years  ago  this 
winter  during  the  height  of  the  grippe  epidemic.  The 
patient  had  died  of  leucocythasmia  with  some  obscure 
complications  which  had  puzzled  the  consulting 
physicians  as  well  as  myself.  Dr.  Earle  was  very 
anxious  to  be  present  at  the  autopsy,  but  inasmuch 
as  the  time  was  more  than  filled  looking  after  the 
living,  no  earlier  time  could  be  found  for  the  autopsy 
than  one  o'clock  at  night.  But  it  made  no  differ- 
ence to  Dr.  Earle,  he  was  bound  to  be  there.  It  was 
nearly  two  o'clock  when  he  arrived,  thoroughly  tired 
and  worn  completely  out.  There  was  champagne  and 
other  imported  wines  on  the  sideboard,  for  the  man  had 
been  a  high  liver,  but  Dr.  Earle  had  no  use  for  stim- 
ulants. Tired  out  as  he  was  he  laid  down  on  the 
lounge  saying:  "When  you  come  to  anything  in- 
teresting let  me  know."  The  sentence  was  hardly 
uttered  when  it  was  followed  by  a  snore  of  which 
only  Dr.  Earle  was  capable,  and  that  would  have 
awakened  any  other  sleeper  than  the  one  on  which 
the  autopsy  was  being  mule.  I  speak  of  this  case 
to  show  that  he  preferred  take  his  sleep  in  the  pres- 
ence of  an  autopsy  where  possibly  he  might  gain 
a  point  of  scientific  interest,  than  to  go  home  as  was 
his   privilege,    and    as    many   a    less   enthusiastic   man 


would  have  done.  But  other  recollections  are  called 
to  mind  by  this  case.  On  the  Sunday  afternoon  pre- 
ceding this  autopsy  there  had  met  in  consultation 
at  the  house  Dr.  Charles  T.  Parkes,  Dr.  J.  Suydam 
Knox  and  Dr.  Charles  Warrington  Earle  and  myself, 
and  looking  back  to-night  over  the  past  I  ask  myself 
this  question:  "  Where  are  the  others  who  met  in 
consultation  three  short  years  ago?"  Is  not  the  les- 
son in  each  of  these  cases  the  same,  and  does  it  not 
come  right  home  to  us  that  an  over\\"brked  consti- 
tution, even  if  its  owner  be  a  physician,  must  suc- 
cumb to  disease,  and  does  it  not  bring  a  warning  to 
each  one  of  us  ? 

Dr.  Earle's  home  life  I  think  has  not  been  touched 
upon.  It  was  particularly  beautiful.  Those  who 
knew  him  intimately  knew  the  reverence  he  had  for 
his  home.  He  was  a  busy  man  and  had  not  the  time 
to  give  to  his  family  that  he  would  have  liked,  but 
every  moment  of  it  was  valuable.  His  love  and  re- 
gard for  his  wife  was  in  proportion  to  the  great  heart 
from  which  it  sprang.  She  was  his  inspiration  and 
from  her  he  would  seek  and  receive  advice  and 
counsel.  Although  a  great  man  himself  he  appreci- 
ated woman,  and  was  not  too  great  or  proud  to  take 
woman's  advice  in  all  his  course. 

I  feel  that  I  have  personally  sustained  a  great  loss 
and  that  though  his  life  was  all  too  short,  its  influence 
and  example  were  far  reaching,  and  that  all  across 
whose  path  it  fell  cannot  but  be  better  for  having 
known  Dr.  Earle. 

Dr.  Homer  M.  Thomas  :  Whatever  is  universal 
must  be  necessary;  the  necessary  is  right.  Death  is 
universal,  therefore  it  is  necessary,  hence  it  is  right. 
This  philosophysums  up  the  highest  human  experience 
which  we  can  bring  to  bear  upon  our  views  of  that 
change  to  which  we  are  all  journeying.  When  the 
step  is  tottering,  the  hair  is  sdvered,  and  the  brow 
furrowed  with  care,  we  know  that  only  a  few  years, 
aye,  even  a  few  months  can  follow  ere  the  individual 
will  go  from  us.  But  when  one  is  taken  from  our 
midst  whose  sources  of  heredity  date  back  to  a  father 
yet  living,  whose  natural  strength  was  drawn  both 
from  heredity  and  from  careful  use  of  his  opportuni- 
ties in  life,  when    we  have  these  sources  which  would 


tend  to  upbuild  and  strengthen,  and  make  permanent 
in  man)  years  his  existence,  and  suddenly  find  such 
an  individual  taken  from  us,  we  must  feel  that  there  has 

been  some  great  error,  seme  great  mistake  in  such  a 
sudden  taking  off.  Comparatively  a  young  man.  I 
have  stood  at  tin-  I'K  i  ol  the  lamented  surgeon, 
Cjunn  ;  ol  the  gynecologist,  Byford ;  of  our  I  ncl< 
Allen  ;  ol  the  famous  surgeon,  Parkes;  of  thefoundi  i 
of  the  Presbyterian  Hospital,  Dr.  Ross;  of  one  of 
the  incorporators  of  the  Physicians'  and  Surgeons' 
College,  Dr.  Jackson  ;  have  viewed  the  last  ol  the 
mortal  remains  of  the  lamented  Knox;  have  seen 
pass  from  us  that  accomplished  gentleman  and 
scholar,  Dr.  Hutchins,  but  it  did  not  seem  possible 
that  my  genial,  robust,  cheery  friend,  Dr.  Earle, 
would  ever  be  among  that  number.  To  me  his  devo- 
tion to  principle  is  one  of  the  striking  characteristics 
ol  Ins  career.  Any  boy  who  can  at  the  age  of  sixteen 
honor  and  revere  a  Hag  and  love  a  country  so  that  he 
will  voluntarily  enlist  for  the  defense  of  his  Hag  and 
to  help  save  his  country,  shows  a  sturdiness  of  char- 
acter and  a  strength  of  manhood  and  devotion  to 
principle  that  is  exceeding  rare. 

In  my  medical  acquaintance  with  Dr.  Earle,  which 
i  ov<  red  a  considerable  period,  for  he  was  one  of  my 
instructors,  1  always  found  him  a  cheery,  true,  gener- 
ous friend,  and  one  at  all  times  willing  to  help  and 
uphold  the  hands  of  the  young  and  struggling  practi- 
tioner. He  has  gone  from  us,  this  place  shall  see 
him  no  more,  but  let  us  believe  that  his  life,  like  a 
peaceful  river  flowing  between  wooded  banks,  has 
passed  on  to  that  waveless   sea  where  all  time  is  rest. 

Dr.  R.  X.  Hall:  1  believe  that  Dr.  Earle's  life 
has  been  touched  upon  in  almost  every  phase  this 
evening, except  perhaps  his  intercourse  with  the  fami- 
lies direct.  Dr.  Earle  was  one  of  my  earliest  medi- 
cal acquaintances  in  this  city;  1  have  had  occasion 
twice  since  I  have  lived  here  to  pass  through  ver) 
deep  waters,  and  I  want  to  say  in  memory  of  Dr. 
Earle  that  no  one  came  to  me,  no  one  came  to  my 
family,  with  the  wholesomeness,  with  the  cheer,  with 
the  comfort,  that  he  did.  I  owe  a  great  deal  to  the 
medical  men  of  the  West  Side,  many  of  them  have 
proved    their    friendship    to    me    in    more    ways    than 


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one,  but  Dr.  Earle  came  a  little  closer  than  most  of 
them.  I  do  not  say  it  because  I  wish  to  find  any  fault 
with  them,  because  they  were  all  very  kind  to  me. 
In  my  direst  extremity  about  a  year  ago,  Dr.  Earle 
came  to  me  with  tears  in  his  eyes  and  with  his  bi<* 
palm  open,  and  knowing  what  my  condition  was  at 
the  time,  he  said  "doctor,  do  you  need  any  money?  " 
I  mention  this  merely  to  show  the  large  heart  of  the 
man,  that  he  did  not  stop  simply  with  words;  he 
meant  if  there  was  any  need  he  was  ready  to  offer  help. 

Miss  Coon:  We,  the  students  of  the  Woman's 
Medical  School,  have  known  Prof.  Earle  only  three 
short  years,  but  it  seems  to  me  that  it  need  take  no 
longer  time  than  three  years  for  one  to  know,  to  un- 
derstand and  appreciate  Prof.  Earle.  We  knew 
him  as  a  teacher  and  as  a  friend  only.  As  a  teacher 
we  knew  him  as  a  thorough  teacher.  In  all  his  teach- 
ing and  in  all  the  planned  work  given  to  us,  the  prep- 
aration was  thorough.  He  came  down  to  us,  he  never 
talked  above  us.  In  his  teaching  on  the  study  of 
the  diseases  of  children  and  their  treatment,  we  felt 
he  was  telling  us  practical  things,  that  he  did  not  tell 
us  what  we  could  take  a  book  and  read,  but  what  he 
had  experienced,  and  in  telling  it  to  us  he  told  the 
fadures  he  had  made  and  pointed  out  to  us  the  road 
by  which  we  must  surely  travel.  He  made  every- 
thing so  plain  that  time  and  time  again  the  girls 
have  said  that  they  felt  as  if  they  were  sitting  by 
the    bedside  and  seeing  it  all. 

As  a  friend,  we  knew  him  to  be  our  friend;  every 
one  of  us  felt  that  in  him  we  had  a  personal'friend. 
I  think  we  all  appreciate  how  much  he  has  done  for 
us;  such  a  man  as  Prof.  Earle,  so  noble  and  so 
dignified,  and  yet  so  kind  and  so  true,  everywhere,  at 
every  time,  to  us,  we  could  not  help  but  appreciate. 
His  presence  in  the  lecture  room  was  an  inspiration  to 
us.  As  he  came  in  every  face  lighted  up.  We  have 
noticed  it  so  many  times,  and  remarked  upon  it,  that 
when  Prof.  Earle  came  it  seemed  as  if  a  gleam  of 
sunlight  came,  and  every  one  felt  it,  and  every  stu- 
dent felt  that  she  must  do  her  very  best  work  for 
him.  We  learned  from  him  many  lessons  besides 
the  lessons  he  taught  in  the  diseases  of  children. 
We  learned  from  him  that  a  sunny  presence  is  best  in 


2a 

the  sick-room;  we  learned  from  him  that  to  be  thor- 
ough is  the  only  way,  and  to  be  observant  is  neces- 
sary. In  all  the  experiences  he  related  to  us  we 
knew  he  must  have  been  observant,  he  remembered 
.ill  the  details  ol  all  the  rases  he  ever  reciti  d  to  us. 
<  in  .ill  the  moral  questions  of  the  day,  by  weirds 
dropped  here  and  then-,  we  all  knew  perfectly  well 
where  he  stood.  It  Prof.  Earle  had  done  nothing 
in  any  other  circle  than  in  the  Woman's  Medical 
School,  the  ripples  of  his  influence  would  spread  far 
and  wide,  and  many,  many  years  would  tell  of  his 
work. 

1  wish  some  one  might  have  told  you,  who  could 
better  express  it.  how  much  we  all  appreciate  him 
and  how  inu.  h  we  realize  that  in  his  death  we  have 
lost  a  true  friend. 

Mr.  Burke  (member  of  the  senior  class,  College 
of  Physicians. and  Surgeons) :  In  behalf  of  this  class 
1  wish  to  thank  you  for  the  privilege  of  showing  pub- 
licly our  feeling  for  Prof.  Earle.  Although  we  have- 
not  prepared  any  special  thought,  the  language  of 
the  heart  is  simple,  and  that  is  the  language  that  has 
been  spoken  here  to-night.  I  can  say  that  if  any  class 
evei  loved  a  teacher  this  class  loved  Prof.  Earle, 
ami  perhaps  for  some  peculiar  reasons.  The  same  feel- 
ing that  has  been  spoken  of  asexisting  between  schools 
1  am  afraid  exists  between  classes,  and  especially  be- 
tween this  class  and  the  senior  class  that  has  recently 
left  our  college,  and  on  many  occasions  where  this 
class,  perhaps  unreasonably,  demanded  recognition 
from  the  faculty,  Dr.  Earle  was  one  of  the  foremost 
in  settling  matters  for  us,  and  we  recognized  in  him 
not  onl\  the  professor,  but  the  man  whom  we  knew 
was  the  student's  friend.  Many  of  us  who  came  in 
contact  with  him  personally  know  that  he  was  always 
willing  to  help  the  student  who  was  trying  to  make 
his  way  to  the  profession.  In  the  classroom  he  was  a 
I, (am  of  sunshine,  and  many  a  night  (as  his  lecture 
was  to  come  at  the  last  hour,  from  five  to  six  o'clock) 
after  a  long  afternoon,  the  room  clouded  with  smoke, 
perhaps,  and  the  air  unpleasant,  we  would  all  feel  so 
much  refreshed,  not  by  the  fresh  air  let  in,  but  by  the 
f,i(  t  that  I  >r.  Earle  was  going  to  be  there. 

We    deeply  regret    the  loss  of  Dr.   Earle    and  we 


feel  that  we  have  been  very  unfortunate  in  having  him 
only  for  the  first  part  of  our  last  year.  We  feel  that 
by  the  death  of  Dr.  Earle  the  students  have  lost  a 
cherished  friend;  this  society  has  lost  a  beloved 
member;   and  the  world  has  lost  a  man. 

Dr.  J.  M.  Patton:  In  speaking  thus  far  about 
Dr.  Earle  it  seems  to  me  as  though  there  had  been 
one  feature  of  his  character  that  has  not  been  dwelt 
upon  sufficiently;  that  is,  his  relationship  to  the 
younger  men  of  the  profession.  I  sometimes  think 
that  the  older  physicians,  probabhy  largely  from  care- 
lessness, do  not  appreciate  the  benefit  a  young  physi- 
cian derives  from  a  little  encouragement  given  by 
one  of  the  older  members  of  the  profession.  I  have 
known  quite  a  number  ot  the  older  men  in  the  pro- 
fession, not  necessarily  in  years,  but  in  practice,  but 
I  have  never  known  one  who  would  go  out  of  his 
way  so  far  and  at  times  when  he  was  bus)'  to  say  a 
good  word  to,  or  give  a  little  encouragement  to  the 
younger  men  of  the  profession  as  Dr.  Earle  would. 
When  I  first  came  to  this  city  eleven  years  ago,  with- 
out a  professional  acquaintance  west  of  the  Alle- 
ghanies,  I  felt  the  peculiar  position  very  much,  and 
among  all  the  earlier  acquaintances  1  made  in  this 
city,  there  is  no  one  who  impressed  me  more  on  inci- 
dental acquaintance  than  Dr.  Earle,  if  it  were  only  to 
meet  him  on  the  street  and  speak  with  him  for  a  few  mo- 
moments;  the  future  looked  brighter,  the  possibilities 
greater,  and  a  man  seemed  lifted  up  with  more  hope  for 
the  future.  A  young  physician  of  this  city  told  me  an 
incident  occurring  between  himself  and  Dr.  Earle, 
which  brought  out  this  feature  of  his  character  with 
a  great  deal  of  force.  This  young  physician  had  had 
a  patient  where  consultation  was  demanded,  and  for 
some  reason  or  other  he  had  objected  to  having  Dr. 
Earle  present;  that  is,  he  had  used  his  influence 
toward  another  consultant.  This  reached  Dr. 
Earle's  ears,  but  instead  of  feeling  hurt  about  it  and 
getting  offish  toward  the  young  physician,  he  went 
directly  to  his  office  and  told  him  what  he  had  heard, 
and  then  said  to  him,  "Now,  doctor,  you  are  a  young 
man  beginning  practice  here,  I  have  been  in  practice 
here  a  number  of  years,  I  can  do  you  a  great  deal 
more   injury  than  you  can   do  me.      I   don't  want  to 


be  bad  friends  with  you,  and  I  don't  think  you  want 
to  be  bad  friends  with  me."  The}'  shook  hands  and 
ever  after  were  the  firmest  of  friends.  That  Dr. 
Earle  should  go  out  of  his  way  to  that  extent  to 
retain  the  f,'ood  will  of  a  young  physician  who  was 
nothing  to  him,  anil  to  encourage  him  the  way  he  did, 
probably  preventing  him  from  making  a  similar  or 
more  serious  mistake  in  the  future,  brings  out  the 
element  in  his  character  that  has  always  presented 
itself  strongly  to  me. 

Dr.  Gborge  Henry  Cleveland:  I  feel  that  it  is 
my  duty  to  speak  a' word  of  tribute  to  the  memory  of 
the  departed  one.  Almost  all  of  the  aspects  of  the 
late  Dr.  Earle's  nature  have  been  dilated  upon,  ex- 
cept possibly  one  that  has  been  touched,  yet  not 
fully  spoken  of.  I  refer  to  his  desire  for  a  very 
much  wider  sociability  among  the  ranks  of  the  prac- 
ticing profession  in  Chicago.  He  very  early  in  the 
history  of  the  Practitioners'  Club  became  an  active 
spirit  and  a  great  force  and  was  no  doubt  the  most 
active  member  of  that  organization.  I  mean  to  say 
that  he  did  more  to  further  the  success  of  the  Prac- 
titioners' Club  than  any  other  single  member.  And 
he  did  it  simply  because  it  was  his  nature  to  pro- 
mote sociability.  By  nature  he  was  extremely  social, 
and  he  desired  to  have  that  social  feeling  extend  in 
the  profession.  His  efforts  in  that  direction  certainly 
carry  a  lesson  which  I  hope  all  will  profit  from. 


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